Shortly after Venerable Jannzi shared her shocking insight and speculation about the Carmine System and the Blood Pact, Ves never thought about keeping it a secret from the Mech Trade Association.
The MTA was one of the well-deserved overlords of human civilization. It possessed a wealth of human and alien technology and could muster the resources of an entire civilization. Dozens of Star Designers directly renounced their allegiances to their former states and devoted themselves to furthering the Association's technological supremacy.
While Ves was confident in his ability to hide his greatest secrets, he did not have the confidence to keep the mechers at bay entirely.
He may be able to hide his thoughts and his less physical creations, but he could never obscure anything solid and concrete like the Carmine System.
Now that he had set a firm goal in mind for his distant promotion, it was inevitable for him to restart the Blood Knight Project.
Not only would he begin to experiment with forming Blood Pacts with different candidates, it would be comically easy for the mechers to notice that a norm with F-grade genetic aptitude suddenly began to pilot a mech!
It didn't matter if Ves took all sorts of precautions and conducted the experiments in a highly secure environment. No measure was foolproof, and the larger the commotion, the harder it became to prevent any leaks.
Rather than engage in a futile effort to hide this secret on his own, he might as well submit his explosive idea to the MTA right away.
This course of action would maximize his gains as the mechers always liked it when mech designers shared the fruits of their labor to the Association.
The only uncertainty that Ves towards turning to the MTA was whether he would be limited or forbidden from furthering his research on the Carmine System.
After all, this brand-new mech biosystem not only possessed a lot of unknowns, but had a higher chance of endangering mech pilots!
Though Ves did not explicitly mention it, a mech designer and researcher as intelligent as an MTA Master would definitely know that the development of the Carmine System had definitely been fast and loose!
Ves would have gotten fired, sanctioned or even imprisoned a long time ago if he attempted to pull off such an insane experiment in a formal research facility!
Fortunately, Ves had the final say in the Larkinson Clan, so he could set his own rules.
That did not change the fact that the MTA would likely take issue if it knew how much he endangered his own test subjects.
Anyone who put a high priority on safety and complying with regulations would definitely work to stop Ves from conducting any further reckless experiments.
He had little choice in the matter. He just hoped that Master Goldstein would be lenient and overlook these problematic issues.
Once Ves completed his brief but extremely subversive ideas, he nervously waited for the verdict.
The bald Master did not act with haste. He had fallen completely silent and put his formidable intellect into processing what he heard.
From judging the accuracy of Ves' statements to visualizing the enormous consequences of reducing the importance of genetic aptitude to the mech community and human society as a whole, Master Goldstein did not dismiss anything he heard!
Ves sat awkwardly behind Goldstein's large desk and tried his best not to groan in pain.
The strong interference fields employed by the MTA Master continued its attempts to neutralize any technological components including organic cranial implants.
Ves had thought that he had managed to upgrade and evolve his original Archimedes Rubal bioimplant far beyond its original specifications, but it turned out that it had a lot to go before it truly became impervious to interference!
He began to distract himself by coming up with possible solutions on how to protect his integrated bioimplant further. It was difficult to come up with any solid solutions as his expertise in biotechnology was still too shallow.
In the interest of upgrading his augmentations and furthering the development of the Carmine System, Ves really needed to increase his knowledge related to biotechnology and biomech design.
It would be best if he could do so with ease by ingesting the right enlightenment fruit, but that depended on whether he could get lucky with the Tree of Possibilities. Its selection of fruits was completely random and their short descriptions hardly helped to clarify their exact benefits.
Ves previously held off on eating a lot of enlightenment fruits because he did not want to pollute his mind with enormous reserves of irrelevant junk.
He also feared that he would reach a limit where he could no longer store any further knowledge in his mind.
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